--- title: No animal collects gold; bowerbirds decorate their display areas wit… — Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and… · tree and pragmatics description: No animal collects gold; bowerbirds decorate their display areas with blue or shiny objects, and the idea that magpies steal shiny things is mostly a myth, as tests found magpies are wary of shiny objects. Who acts: animal, bowerbirds, magpies, idea. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal, bowerbirds, magpies, idea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards.lesson:15 # text = No animal collects gold; bowerbirds decorate their display areas with blue or shiny objects, and the idea that magpies steal shiny things is mostly a myth, as tests found magpies are wary of shiny objects. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 collects collect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 bowerbirds bowerbird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 decorate decorate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 display display NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 areas area NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 shiny shiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 objects object NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 magpies magpie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 steal steal VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl _ _ 23 shiny shiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 29 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 33 magpies magpie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 wary wary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 ccomp _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 shiny shiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 objects object NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **collect** | present | no animal | gold | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | | 2 | **decorate** | present | bowerbirds | bowerbirds's display areas | | | | with blue objects | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent area=Destination with object=Theme | | 3 | **steal** | present | magpies | shiny things | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | the idea | a myth | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | past | tests | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | magpies | | | | | of shiny objects; wary *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards.lesson:15`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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